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F5 INTRODUCES COMPREHENSIVE SAAS-BASED SECURITY FOR WEB APPS AND APIS

Mark Weiner
Published February 15, 2022

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F5 Distributed Cloud Web Application and API Protection (WAAP) delivers
heightened security for apps and APIs in a simple-to-deploy but powerful,
four-pronged SaaS-based solution.

Applications are the lifeblood of businesses today, fueling a surge in global
enterprise software spending estimated to top US $600 billion for 2021,
according to Statista.com. But with the ever-increasing deployment and usage of
apps worldwide come requirements for powerful app security.

The need for more protection is heightened because organizations are
increasingly deploying apps in a distributed model across cloud providers, edge
locations, and public and private environments. This is particularly true for
those using modern apps built with microservices and multiple distributed
clusters.

At the same time, cybercriminals have found more ways than ever to expose,
alter, disable, steal, or gain unauthorized access to apps and IT
infrastructure, in part due to the overall growing complexity of app
environments. Attacks are coming from vectors across all interaction points of
the application surface, requiring a sophisticated and broad-based defense. Bad
actors continue to be opportunistic in finding ways to exploit vulnerabilities
(Log4j being a recent example).

In today’s security landscape, “every organization should expect frequent
attacks of some sort, but neither organizations nor attackers are uniform
groups,” states F5 Labs’ Application Protection Report for 2022. “Organizations
run different applications on different networks, store different types of data,
have different customers, different controls, different regulatory regimes, and
different risk appetites. Application architectures are increasingly distributed
and decentralized for performance and resilience, which in turn introduces
multiple intersecting responsibilities with respect to protecting data.”

As app environments evolve and expand, it further illustrates the importance of
an overarching app security strategy—one that implements a multi-layered
approach and a more coordinated security effort across all teams that play a
part in the app lifecycle.

F5 OFFERS NEW MULTI-LAYERED SOLUTION TO PROTECT APPS AND APIS

To help provide in-depth defense and a coordinated security architecture for an
organization’s web apps and APIs, we're introducing F5 Distributed Cloud Web
Application and API Protection (WAAP).

SaaS-based F5 Distributed Cloud WAAP secures web apps and APIs deployed in
multi-cloud and distributed environments, simplifying app security while
increasing overall efficacy. It brings together four key components critical to
securing the digital experience for today’s modern enterprises:

 * Web Application Firewall (WAF): F5 Distributed Cloud WAF leverages powerful
   Advanced WAF technology, combining signature- and behavior-based protection
   for web applications. It acts as an intermediate proxy to inspect application
   requests and responses to block and mitigate a broad spectrum of risks
   stemming from the OWASP Top 10, threat campaigns, malicious users, and more.
 * API Security: F5 Distributed Cloud API Security safeguards application
   programming interfaces (APIs) from threat actors attempting to exploit them
   to facilitate a breach or services outage. With automatic API discovery that
   can identify and map API endpoints to any app—as well as provide support for
   a positive security model through API swagger import—organizations can easily
   observe, refine, and enforce proper API behavior.
 * Bot Defense: F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense manages and deflects malicious
   automation to prevent sophisticated, human-emulating attacks. It brings
   together unified telemetry, network intelligence, and AI/ML with human
   analysis to identify and defend against automated threats such as credential
   stuffing and account takeover, scraping, card cracking, and more.
 * DDoS Mitigation: With F5 Distributed Cloud DDoS Mitigation, organizations get
   multi-layered protection against attacks across layers 3–7, including
   network-level shielding from volumetric distributed denial-of-service (DDoS),
   DoS signatures, service policies including rate limiting, IP reputation, and
   advanced scrubbing with deep packet inspection. This offers protection from
   spoofed and malformed traffic, request floods, and other forms of abuse that
   attempt to overload web properties and apps.

 



BUSINESS OUTCOMES YOUR ORGANIZATION CAN EXPECT

F5 Distributed Cloud WAAP helps organizations break down organizational silos to
bridge old and new operating models, and legacy and modern apps, on a business
and technical level. It simplifies security policy and enforcement across
clouds, data centers, and edge locations to reduce complexity and ensure more
consistent policy.


These critical business outcomes are enabled by:


 * Security efficacy + agility: Bringing together F5’s top-tier security
   controls providing comprehensive, highly effective app security delivered as
   SaaS with unified management.
 * Flexible, deploy-anywhere options: Securing apps on the F5 Global Network or
   deployed natively across multiple clouds (public/private), data centers, and
   edge environments—wherever customer apps are located.
 * A common platform for app security, app networking, and edge computing:
   Unifying app security and delivery with WAAP, multi-cloud networking, and app
   platform services all via a single SaaS platform with a global network.

In short, F5 Distributed Cloud WAAP will help your organization make its secure
apps a digital differentiator.

For more information, contact your F5 sales representative. Experience using F5
Distributed Cloud WAAP for free via our interactive simulator and find more
information on f5.com.

 


SECURE AND DELIVER EXTRAORDINARY DIGITAL EXPERIENCES

F5’s portfolio of automation, security, performance, and insight capabilities
empowers our customers to create, secure, and operate adaptive applications that
reduce costs, improve operations, and better protect users.  Learn more ›




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